An ‘antisemitic’ and ‘white supremacist’ schoolboy who amassed an arsenal of weapons and purported to be in a neo-Nazi group has been detained for three-and-a-half years. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons despite an application by the media to name him, was convicted last month of sharing terror publications and pretending to be in a proscribed far-right group. The jury was unable to agree to a verdict on a charge that he was planning a terror attack on synagogues in Newcastle. The prosecution said it would not apply for a retrial on that count. The teenager, who was arrested in February last year while wearing his school uniform, purported to be a member of the neo-Nazi organisation The Base. He put up stickers promoting the group, made promotional material and encouraged others to join. The boy’s trial heard how police found an ‘arsenal’ of weapons, including a crossbow and knives at his home he shared with his father, in Northumberland. Jurors were shown images of the boy’s bedroom which had an air rifle hanging on the wall and an air shotgun with the words ‘natural selection’ and ‘George Floyd’ scrawled on the barrel, in reference to the black man murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis in 2020. Police also found a replica of an SS officer’s cap, a flag of Rhodesia, two military tactical vests, military helmets and two skull masks. (…) Officers found 4.8TB of messages and files, the equivalent of 1.2 million songs, and a total of 253,005 messages. He was part of 25 extreme right-wing chat groups. The teenager watched a video of the New Zealand mosque terror attack then looked up synagogues in the Newcastle area, the court heard. He also made racist and offensive references in his journal. In one entry, written on January 30 2023 when he was aged 13, the boy wrote: ‘I swear to God I hate my f**king school. ‘I want to do horrible things to the people in my school. They are just stupid, loud and just overall obnoxious npcs [non-playing characters]. Some of them should be shot.’ He went on to list a ‘Mass Murder Ranking’ topped by Anders Breivik who killed 77 people in Norway, writing: ‘Ultimately he is the best he killed the most amount of people to get his point across to people in the world.’ In another entry he wrote: ‘In other terms I’m angry because I know that I will never have a girlfriend.’
via daily mail: Schoolboy ‘white supremacist’, 16, is sentenced after sharing terror material and amassing arsenal of weapons including crossbow and knives